Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780870131929ISBN:0870131923
Description: Good in VG jacket. 0870131923 Dust jacket condition: VG. Solid retired library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. This study is an attempt to more precisely define poetic diction, to trace its history from Chaucer to Wordsworth, and to show how widespread was the use of this reservoir of word, phrase, and image in the work of good, bad, and indifferent poets. While some modern students of poetic diction-also sometimes called stock ... read more
Edition: 1st US edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Date Published: 1975
Description: Hardcover. Good condition in dj. Traces a history of poetic diction from Chaucer to Wordsworth, showing how widespread the use of this reservoir of word, phrase, & image was in the work of good, bad & indifferent poets. Examines the works of Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Wordsworth etc. 214pp. 48838. read more
Binding: hardcover, 6¼" x 9¼", with dust jacket
Publisher: Michigan State University Press-ISBN: 0870131923
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780870131929ISBN:0870131923
Description: Jacket protected in transparent covering. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket. 214 pages. While some modern students of poetic ('stock') diction consider archaisms and compound epithets part of that diction, the present emphasis is upon Latinisms, words with-y suffixes, peri-phrases, and an important, if somewhat less easily described group of favorite words, a number of which, with predictable qualifiers, were much used in the rhyme position in heroic couplets. This reservoir of ... read more
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